Finance Manager at Max Drive

Max Drive - We are a team of passionate people and a leading technology-enabled company driven by a vision to solve the mobility challenges in Africa. We want to get people and goods to their destinations hitch-free. It is personal for us because we understand the frustration of epileptic transportation. We are making mobility safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable through the deployment of high-performance technologies and operators.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time
Category: Finance

Description

• We are looking for a Finance Manager who is an expert in analyzing every day financial activities and subsequently provide advice and guidance to upper management on current and future financial plans.
• A strong candidate combines a strong analytical mindset with technical ability and excellent people skills..
• You will be a strategic thinker with strong organizational and problem-solving skills. You will be highly analytical, a self-starter, results-oriented and able to thrive in an entrepreneurial and fast-paced environment.
• This is a full time, permanent and long-term position reporting to the Finance Controller with access to MAX’s executive team.
• We are committed to and encourage equal opportunity.

What You’ll Do
Controlling:

• Ensuring compliance with IFRS, local GAAP and fiscal obligations following standardized formats that will pass an external audit
• Review financial reports for quality
• Directly work on financial reports and make the complex seem simple
• Identifying all errors in account reconciliations, financial statements and reports
• Documenting reasons for any Fails
• Dive deep to identify the root cause of any quality failure
• Develop simple solutions that fix the failure
• Write clear coaching documents that ensure highest quality outputs

Planning and Analysis:

• Oversee operations of the finance department, set goals and objectives, and design a framework for these to be met.
• Manage the preparation of the company’s budget.
• Manage, guide and lead employees to ensure appropriate financial processes are being used.
• Participate in strategic data analysis, research, and modeling for senior company leadership.
• Support project analysis, validation of plans, and ad-hoc requests.
• Advise on investment activities and provide strategies that the company should take.
• Analyze costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and the company’s actual performance compared to the business plans.
• Develop trends and projections for the firm’s finances.

Leadership:

• To use your outstanding knowledge of IFRS and financial acumen to dig into the results our Accountants and Financial Analysts produce.
• You will write actionable coaching documents for them that are clear, simple, impactful and derived from insights you discovered personally. In your weekly 1:1s with your team members, you will ask probing questions to confirm that your feedback is being applied.

Requirements
What You’ll Need:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics.
• 5+ years in finance or a related area in a fast paced global organization
• Extensive understanding of financial trends both within the company and general market patterns.
• ACA or ACCA.
• Sage 300 experience or comparable finance system.
• General knowledge of accounting/financial/operational principles.
• Experience developing financial reports and metrics.
• Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with various management levels.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to a changing, fast-paced environment
• Strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills.
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture.
• Experience in Mobility/Fintech/Gig-economy/eCommerce.
• Strong Project and Program management skills.
• Global leader and thinker with the ability to make quick strategic decisions.
• Highly energetic, self-motivated & proactive.

Benefits
What You’ll Get:

• Competitive pay & benefits
• Health Insurance
• Unrivaled Learning and Development

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.